TG: you sound like a real popular lady out hereTG: even you are looking for you!UU: indeed.TG: well i hope you can find herTG: butTG: if thats your jobTG: to find bizarro calliope and go wollop ur broTG: then what is our heroic biz?UU: it's the same as it always was.UU: to win the game.TG: oh yeahTG: duhUU: it is as i once told jane.UU: with victory yoU may finally exit this vast whirling storm.UU: by claiming yoUr reward yoU woUld bring closUre to a very wide coil of caUsality, one not tracing a continUoUs path like a snake, bUt intricately woven like a wreath.UU: a ring of coUntless little rises and falls, ascents and descents, on its way Up and down a pair of mUch bigger ones itself.UU: from alpha to beta, then beta to alpha, as if a moUntain to be scaled and then climbed back down. its peak toUches the eye of a storm which cannot end Until the moment yoU all walk throUgh that door.UU: only then will there be calm.TG: ._.UU: ah, bUgger. forgive me, sometimes i forget myself and begin speaking in riddles.UU: it's jUst a habit that is in the natUre of my people.TG: yeah i knowTG: at least yours r better than your bros stupid gamesUU: don't remind me. in my opinion they do not qUalify as anything of the sort, mUch the same as his "shitty twists". >:uTG: so then from what im surmising here is we dont need to beat him to win our gameTG: like dealing with him directly is kinda out of our domain?UU: as the one who provoked the breach in paradox space which i jUst coloUrfUlly described, he has always exerted his inflUence on yoUr realities from afar, and from many different angles. throUgh Unwitting sUrrogates, oUtsoUrced manipUlation, oUtright enslavement, and even petty harassment. bUt most of all, he prevails throUgh the simple inertia of inevitability that has always been on his side, as a lord of time.UU: and as the one who is to blame for foolishly allowing him access to sUch power, it's only proper that i take responsibility for finding a way to defeat him.UU: bUt even thoUgh his methods of inflUencing yoUr session are indirect, they are still formidable.UU: there will be a nUmber of powerfUl foes who stand between yoU and victory.UU: tomorrow, a terrific battle will take place.UU: when yoU wake Up, i sUggest yoU begin to prepare.TG: ummmm okTG: howTG: like make more sick gearTG: i could hustle up another batch of illwicked gunsTG: just a big ol pile of gunsTG: jake can have the wimpy smaller onesTG: make jane like a fancy new fork or spoon or suchTG: like an elite endgame spoonTG: whatever that isTG: like uhTG: the chowderfucker 5000TG: janey be flippin her godspoon round bopping monsters doing likeTG: CUCKOO damageTG: wont bother make nothin 4 dirk since hes basically married to his boring anime swordTG: like u could even pry that thing from his rad dead cadaverUU: yes, i'm sUre new eqUipment woUld come in handy.UU: now that yoU mention it, well before i died or even realized i woUld not live to play, i made special exception to my rUle of staying linear with conversation. i messaged jane a birthday gift.UU: yoU see, i had a brief vision from skaia which sUggested to me she coUld Use a boost in morale on this special day, so i offered her something very dear to me. jUst a little token to show appreciation for her friendship.UU: i hope it will cheer her Up, and moreover that it will prove at least somewhat UsefUl to yoUr party.UU: bUt really, at this stage if yoU wish to prevail against sUch stacked odds, collecting boons sUch as new weapons and treasUres will only go so far.UU: i think yoU will need to embrace a far more sUbstantive gambit.

That was the last update for a good while. I'll say more about the pause soon.

The flash: song was an old and good one by Malcolm Brown, whose name I'd hope you would be familiar with by now. Art contributed by Adrienne, Ikimaru, Guzusuru, Shelby, and Rah. Great to work with all these people again. As has always been the case, the enthusiasm for the story by all contributors really shows in the work they do, and makes the final animation result feel a lot more special than it otherwise would be. A big thanks to all these artists, along with anyone else who ever left their artistic mark on this story.

9828 had a song and a drawing by James Roach and Ipgd respectively. Whoa, those are respectively very very good. The doomsday screed is by this son of a bozo, and it does appear to have motivated quite a STRONG wave of selfie posting. Maybe enough to even save the website from old man Hussie? Guess we'll find out. Hmm, sure does seem like Homestuck has a lot of good lookin' readers. I must say I am impressed. I have taken quite an extensive tour through your offerings and I have yet to find an unattractive face in front of Arquiusprite's tremendous buttocks. Kudos to every single selfie-snapper for being so preposterously photogenic. Just, wow. People have got a couple tumblrarchives already if you want to take a look. I don't know which of those is "better," or more exhaustive, but you know what, a little competition never killed anybody. I guess they can be like the Coke and Pepsi of this baloney ass stunt, for as long as people wanna keep pointing phones at their own faces.

Starting now, We Love Fine will become the primary seller of Homestuck products. Almost everything from the What Pumpkin store will be gradually moved over to the We Love Fine store over the next few weeks. We're also working on a lot of cool new things, which will show up in the WLF store over the following months.

WLF is also running another shirt design contest this month. There were a whole lot of great entries last time, and many of them ended up getting printed. Maybe YOU have a cool idea for a shirt this time around?? I would like to see it!

In closing, I will say this. We Love Fine is a great company! I've worked with them for a couple years already. The people there are VERY enthusiastic about making great stuff for fandoms. Take a look around their site. There's a good chance you will see stuff for other properties you like as well. I'm looking forward to seeing what else they're going to make for Homestuck!